Collecting and Visualizing Metrics in Puppet Enterprise

Perforce Puppet

Jul 30, 2025

This walkthrough covers how to enable and leverage metrics collection in Puppet Enterprise for monitoring and troubleshooting your Puppet infrastructure. Presented by Barr Iserloth and Tony Green learn how to activate metrics logging, integrate with visualization tools like Grafana, and diagnose Puppet Server, PuppetDB, and system-level behaviors with real-time observability.

Key Timestamps

00:00 Why metrics matter for stability, compliance, and scale

1:00 Introducing the Puppet Metrics collector

1:29 Getting started collecting metrics

2:23 Using Puppet Operational Dashboards to visualize data

3:54 Exploring performance dashboards

5:00 Zooming into recent spikes and analyzing usage trends

6:22 – Importance of proactive observability

Referenced Content and Tools
Puppet Metrics Collector documentation: https://ter.li/uj3skn
Support knowledge base and troubleshooting help: https://help.puppet.com/

Visit the Puppet Enterprise Platform page to learn more about what Puppet can do for you: https://ter.li/eogo2u

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